Kubernetes Engineer Job Trends in Central London

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
London > Central London

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) salary in Central London is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 March 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 - 179
Rank change year-on-year - - +75
Permanent jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 1 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.030% - 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.031% - 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £88,250
25th Percentile £72,500 - £89,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £92,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 - £94,375
90th Percentile - - £94,750
London median annual salary £115,000 £107,500 £105,000
% change year-on-year +6.98% +2.38% -17.65%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Central London with a recognized job title 3,187 2,435 3,307
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 90.59% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,289 1,659 2,829
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £73,441
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% -1.28% -2.08%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £74,000 £75,000 £71,500
% change year-on-year -1.33% +4.90% -2.05%

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Kubernetes Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Kubernetes Engineer job vacancy trend in Central London

Kubernetes Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for Kubernetes Engineer job vacancies in Central London.

Salary distribution trend for Kubernetes Engineer job vacancies in Central London

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 19 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London - 1 £75,000 - 2
Kubernetes Engineer
London

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 16 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 19 March 2026, Kubernetes Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Central London region featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) Windows

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform